Usually when I post a comment the spinny wheel takes 1-3 seconds. Today it’s taking 45-90 seconds. So I reset my phone, thinking it’s just me, but no.
Anyone else having this issue, or is Verizon throttling Lemmy for me?
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It’s probably your instance.
No. It has nothing to do with the software. Your instance is the problem. I guess this is your chance to switch to another instance.
or pay your admins bills
Lemmy is cheap compared to Mastodon though. You can probably fit a multi-user instance on the free tier of any hosting provider, provided you sweep media
or both.
You are on the biggest instance using software that passes your comment to every other instance that is federated with yours. I’m surprised it doesn’t take longer than that most of the time.
To be fair, the federation happens in the background after the posting is done. So just posting alone only depends on the capabilities of the instance you’re on.
We had almost the same post 9 days ago:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36299751
Maybe it’s because almost everyone uses one single instance (lemmy.world) which is additionally running a very old Lemmy version. Idk.
Wow, you weren’t lying about them “running a very old Lemmy version.” For anyone else curious, on github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it’s still been 10+ months since the last update.
I left Sync for summit a couple of months ago due to the above, and boy howdy is it better. Actual FOSS, huge amount of options, very similar ux and flow as sync. It’s a champion.
Here’s hoping more people trickle off of sync to a better app and lemmy world can drop that from their issues list.
Building apps is hard. I figured out we could instead steal the work Reddit has done and have been working on turning the official Reddit app into a Lemmy client. I know many of you don’t like it but hey, this might be a selling point during the next exodus
I still wonder how they do security. With every other internet facing service, you’re told to do updates as fast as possible. Or you’re going to be vulnerable against all sorts of attacks. And either Lemmy has far fewer bugs than other software, or someone must be backporting the patches. Or it’s just vulnerable and no one cares bc Lemmy is small and unimportant. But yeah, I’ve been around that time where there were some database issues. And the one or two times federation broke altogether, and people didn’t notice right away, so lots of instances had already applied the broken update…
I think it’s a bit unfortunate that the biggest instance does these kinds of trade-offs. Sure it’s going to help some users with outdated clients. But probably at the cost of security, and if the Lemmy project makes some progress, or fixes bugs, that means most users on the entire platform won’t benefit from that. Until maybe months or years later.
I use Summit as well, it’s great. It’s not FOSS however.
Lemmy is decentralized, there is no singular Lemmy as a whole unless you’re talking specifically about the server software. As a user you interact with your home instance, in your case lemmy.world.
Most connectivity problems and slowdowns are instance-specific unless you’re talking about a federation problem specifically, for example you posted but it doesn’t show up on other instances, that’s a problem between your instance and the community’s instance.
In your case you most likely just hit something on lemmy.world’s side. Lemmy as a whole is way too small for them to even care about it.
I’ve been having sub second response times consistently on mine. This post submitted instantly.
I rarely see any performance issues. Maybe once a month or so the main page won’t load for a couple hours.
I comment and browse a lot, but not obsessively so. I can’t say I’ve ever had an issue with performance with .world
I just experienced issues with Lemmy being slow, then I restarted my phone and it seems to be working as expected now.
Edit: No idea what the issue might be, perhaps I should update the Jerboa app, perhaps AT&T hates me, I dunno…
Android 10 phone here, if that counts for shit.
Addendum post:
I’m still experiencing occasional sporadic lag from lemmy.world, even after restarting my phone.
🤷♂️
